№8, (2004)

The rights of the Ukrainian military, ways to increase the army’s legal awareness, and the notion of military democracy dominated the International Conference on Human Rights in Ukraine’s Army held...

The Ukrainian Applied Folk Art Museum hosts an exposition by Vasyl Korchynsky, member of the National Artists Union of Ukraine. Vasyl Korchynsky is a professional painter and graphic artist,...

A ten-meter bronze horseman will be a monument to Cossack Sotnyk [Captain] Kharko (aka Kharyton). According to legend, he built a fortress in the seventeenth century and gave his name to the town and...

On February 20 the Yakubovsky House, specializing in exclusive collections of gifts, organized a presentation of the Guardian Angel as part of the project, Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine, meant to...

Melodies of the Celestial Empire is the name of a vocal- instrumental-choreographic ensemble founded recently. It stands out from among a great many performing groups, being the only one to have...

Ukrainian bibliophiles had an opportunity to communicate with their favorite authors, receive their autographs or be photographed with them at the Naukova Dumka Publishers, although the meeting was...

The ninth traditional exhibit of the Kseniya’s Day series, this time held at the Art Relief Foundation’s gallery, involves three women artists Oksana Kyrpenko, Oksana Berbeka-Stratiychuk, and Oksana...

On February 23 the nation’s best cartoonists flocked to Kyiv for a conference called Protection of Free Creative Work of Ukraine’s Cartoonists. As suggested by its title, the conference, although...

When you stand by the bust of our pedagogical genius Vasyl Sukhomlynsky at the Pavlysh village cemetery, you cannot help thinking about the Ukrainian people’s wonderful ability to produce brilliant...

The ancient Greeks, including Plato and Aristotle, considered politics an art, rather than a coldblooded game of ambitious calculations. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was clearly...

That the Ukrainian people took up arms was only said in the context of defending the land of Soviets. A hairsplitting reader will take me up on this, for there were Ukrainian heroes and, what is more...

A full-scope presentation of all of The Day’s projects took place several weeks ago, including a photo exhibit currently on display at Odesa’s Museum of Western and Eastern Art and book projects at a...

How much does it cost to adopt a child? What awaits a Ukrainian orphan in a new home in Italy, the US, or Spain? Why do children’s homes sometimes prefer not to give away their wards, at least not...

Alas, the most sinister prophecies and most pessimistic forecasts were proven right during the 76th Oscar-presenting ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings:...

Last January President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine issued an edict on conferring Order of Yaroslav the Wise Fifth Degree on US citizen Yury S. Verlynsky, director of the Chicago- based Institute of...